This article surveys research work done along this direction and
proposes autonomy oriented computing (AOC) as a paradigm to describe systems for solving hard computational
problems and for characterizing the behaviors of a complex system.
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September 19 - 22, 2005 France
IAT 2005 provides a leading international
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